Archive for 2011
Pre or Post-Coordinate Indexing?
Most people think about what they want to search for and are willing to combine their concepts at the time of search. If you think of the way people search in Google, they put in the combination of terms they are thinking of; they are doing the coordination of terms. It is up to the search software to do the intersection of the terms for them and figure out the post-coordination.
Read MoreAccessing Your Data is Important
A consortium of European organizations have united to provide a single view of drug discovery across several data sources with semantic technology.
Read MoreThe Allure of Semantics
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Inc. has launched a new online presence that includes new products and several new features.
Read MoreDigital Libraries Present New Challenges
Bibliographic data seems like it would be a fairly simple and straightforward thing. However, it is really just the beginning of the sorts of data tracked in library catalogs. What about metadata standards and information classification systems?
Read MoreNuxeo Releases DM 5.4.2
Nuxeo has released a new version of Nuxeo Document Management and Nuxeo Enterprise Platform. Nuxeo DM 5.4.2 offers a host of usability and social features in an effort to make the user experience even smoother and more streamlined.
Read MoreWorkshop on Very Large Digital Libraries
With more and more information being accessible via digital libraries, it seems appropriate that The Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries will take place on September 29, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
Read MoreDigitally Indexing Midwifery
ProQuest has acquired British Nursing Index (BNI), a database for nursing and midwifery in the UK, that has been compiled through a partnership of the libraries at Bournemouth University, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Royal College of Nursing and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.
Read MoreCaringo and Perfect Search Form Partnerships for Mutual Customers
Caringo, known for providing object storage software for digital content, has announced a partnership with Perfect Search to provide mutual customers with a solution for the precise search of objects stored in Caringo object storage software (CAStor).
Read MoreOxford Medicine Online Launches New Resource
Oxford Medicine Online has launched Oxford Medical Libraries Online, a new resource that offers a collection of subject-based libraries containing over 50 invaluable short guides.
Read MoreFindability is a Worthy Goal
VirtualWorks Group was just launched by Citrix co-founder, along with a team of techie executives. Their product is an innovative enterprise framework, the Virtual Index Architecture (VIA). This indexes all types of data and virtualizes the content.
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